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Use of Weapons
Early Orbit edition cover
AuthorIain M. Banks
Audio read byPeter Kenny
CountryScotland
LanguageEnglish
SeriesThe Culture
GenreScience fiction
PublisherOrbit
Publication date
September 13, 1990
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages352
ISBN0-356-19160-5
OCLC59159282
Preceded byThe Player of Games 
Followed byThe State of the Art 

Use of Weapons is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1990. It is the third novel in the Culture series.[1]

The narrative takes the form of a biography of a man called Cheradenine Zakalwe, who was born outside of the Culture but was recruited into it by Special Circumstances agent Diziet Sma to work as an operative intervening in less advanced civilizations. The novel recounts several of these interventions and Zakalwe's attempts to come to terms with his own past.[1]

  1. ^ a b Gerald Jonas (3 May 1992). "Science Fiction". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 May 2008.

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